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| − | In ship construction, the Director of Naval Ordnance was responsible for turret armour, with the [[Director of Naval Construction]] being responsible for the rest.<ref>Brown; McCallum. "Ammunition Explosions in World War I". p.67.</ref>
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| − | Lord Jellicoe (D.N.O., 1905 - 1907) wrote in his unpublished memoirs:
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| − | <blockquote>In those days the staff of the D.N.O. composed an Assistant Director of Torpedoes, three officers of Commanders or Lieutenants rank for gunnery work, three for torpedo work and a marines' officer for general duties.<ref>British Library. Jellicoe Papers. Add. MSS. 49038. f. 53.</ref></blockquote>
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| − | In a note of 12 December, 1911, the First Lord, [[Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill|Winston S. Churchill]], ordered that the title of Director of Naval Ordnance be altered to "Director of Naval Armaments" as from 1 January, 1912, so that the initialism "D.N.O." could be applied to the "Director of Naval Operations Division" of the new [[Admiralty War Staff]]. However, at the suggestion of [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]] this latter title was changed to [[Operations Division (Royal Navy)|Director of the Operations Division]] (D.O.D.).<ref>Churchill to the Permanent Secretary to the Board of Admiralty. The National Archives. ADM 1/8377/120. f. 46.</ref>
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| − | On 1 March, 1917, when Captain [[Frederic Charles Dreyer|Frederic C. Dreyer]] succeeded Singer, the torpedo branch was devolved into the [[Director of Torpedoes and Mining (Royal Navy)|Department of the Director of Torpedoes and Mining]] under Rear-Admiral [[Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Thirteenth Baron Stafford|The Hon. Edward S. Fitzherbert]] and Dreyer became solely [[Director of Naval Ordnance (Royal Navy)|Director of Naval Ordnance]].<ref>Jellicoe. ''The Crisis of the Naval War''. p. 228.</ref>
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| − | Dreyer would tell a high-level meeting of Naval Staff officers (presided over by the [[Second Sea Lord]]) in 1920 that:
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| − | <blockquote>Terrible mistakes were made in pre-war days and we had very bad ammunition largely because the D.N.O.s were overloaded with work of widely different natures, such as materiel and training and requirements.<br>It would be grossly unfair to blame the very able D.N.O.s of the past for the mistakes made - it was the fault of the system.<ref>"Report of Conference held in Second Sea Lord's room on Wednesday, 14th July, to discuss the question of responsibility for Training in the Schools, at which Second Sea Lord presided." ADM 116/1803.</ref></blockquote>
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| − | ==Directors of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes==
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| − | <div name=fredbot:office0 otitle="Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{RearRN}}|name=John Arbuthnot Fisher, First Baron Fisher|nick=John A. Fisher|appt=1 November, 1886<ref>Fisher Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 452.</ref>|precBy=[[John Ommanney Hopkins|John O. Hopkins]] as [[Director of Naval Ordnance]]}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Compton Edward Domvile|nick=Compton E. Domvile|appt=21 May, 1891<ref>Domvile Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 332.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Henry Coey Kane|nick=Henry C. Kane|appt=5 March, 1894<ref>Kane Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 741.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Edmund Frederick Jeffreys|nick=Edmund F. Jeffreys|appt=18 August, 1897<ref>Jeffreys Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/36.}} f. 686.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=William Henry May|nick=William H. May|appt=21 January, 1901<ref>May Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 860.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Angus MacLeod|nick=Angus MacLeod|appt=17 April, 1901<ref>MacLeod Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}} f. 824.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Henry Deacon Barry|nick=Henry D. Barry|appt=1 January, 1904<ref>Barry Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 195/38.}} f. 83.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=John Rushworth Jellicoe, First Earl Jellicoe|nick=John R. Jellicoe|appt=24 February, 1905<ref>Jellicoe Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/38.}} f. 693.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon|nick=Reginald H. S. Bacon|appt=25 August, 1907<ref>Bacon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 262.</ref>|end=16 December, 1909<ref>Bacon Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 262.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore|nick=A. G. H. W. Moore|appt=16 December, 1909<ref>Moore Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 64.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor|nick=Frederick C. T. Tudor|appt=12 June, 1912<ref>Tudor Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 90.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Rear-Admiral|name=Morgan Singer|nick=Morgan Singer|appt=11 August, 1914|end=1 March, 1917<ref>Singer Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 220.</ref>|succBy=[[Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, Thirteenth Baron Stafford|Edward S. Fitzherbert]] as [[Director of Torpedoes and Mining (Royal Navy)|Director of Torpedoes and Mining]] and [[Frederic C. Dreyer|Frederic Charles Dreyer]] as [[Director of Naval Ordnance]]}}
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| − | ==Assistant Directors of Naval Ordnance==
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| − | <div name=fredbot:office1 otitle="Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes" nat="UK">{{TenureListBegin|Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank={{CaptRN}}|name=Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor|nick=Frederick C. T. Tudor|appt=1 October, 1906|end=22 May, 1909<ref>Tudor Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}} f. 90.</ref>|precBy=New Appointment}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Arthur Craig Waller|nick=Arthur W. Craig|appt=22 May, 1909|end=22 November, 1911<ref>Waller Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 207.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James Clement Ley|nick=James C. Ley|appt=9 December, 1911|end=22 June, 1912<ref>Ley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 74.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=James Douglas Dick|nick=James D. Dick|appt=22 June 1912|end=3 March, 1915<ref>Dick Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/43.}} f. 204.</ref>}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Herbert Reginald Norbury|nick=Herbert R. Norbury|appt=1915{{CN}}}}
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| − | {{Tenure|rank=Captain|name=Joseph Charles Walrond Henley|nick=Joseph C. W. Henley|appt=16 May, 1917|end=2 January, 1919<ref>Henley Service Record. {{TNA|ADM 196/45.}} f. 44.</ref>}}
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | *[[Instructions for the Director of Naval Ordnance and Torpedoes]]
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